Ribbon-leader.



J. H. BOYE.

RIBBON LEADER.

APPLICATION FILED 050.14, 1914.

Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

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JAMES H. BOYE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB, TO THE BOYE NEEDLE COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

RIBBON-LEADER.

Applicationfiled December 14, 1914.

zen of the United States,residing at 4:348

Ravenswood avenue, Chicago, in the county of Cool: and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ribbon- Leaders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of devices for leading or threading ribbon through fabric.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of. my improved ribbon-leader in its open condition, the view also showing a ribbon-end ready to be inserted and clamped between the jaws of the device; Fig. 2 is a plan View of the device,

in its closed condition, with an endvof 2L1 ribbon shown, by dotted representation, to be clamped between the jaws of the device ready to be threaded; Fig. 3 is a section on line 3, Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a section on line 4, Fig. 1.

All the views show the device in much larger size than it is provided for use.

The body 5, forming the needle of the device, which is best made of an adequately stifi, flat strip of sheet-metal, is bent upon itself to form the point 6, toward which the needle tapers from its opposite end. The bent section 7 is riveted near its rear end to the body, and the rivet fastens at one end a leaf-spring 8, shown to be provided on the under side of its forward end with barbs 9 to register with holes 9 in the adjacent end of the needle. An arm 10, shown in its preferred longitudinally curved form, is pivoted midway between its ends to a fiat side of the needle. The pivot passes through the spring 8, which curves upwardly toward its barbed end from the pivot-point to form a resilient jaw for cooperating with the adj a cent section of the body, forming a companion-jaw in clamping an end of a piece of ribbon 11, tape or the like, to be threaded or led through fabric by manipulating the device. The ends of the arm, which is preferably resilient, but less so than the jaw 8, are shown rounded and tapered; and the arm is so pivoted that when it is turned in either direction to lie parallel with the face of the needle, the part then extending from the point toward the section 7 will reach at its rounded and tapered end underneath the adjacent end of that section, where it is Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 23, 1915. Serial No. 377,102.

shown to form a recess at 7 to receive and house that end.

With the device in the condition in which it is represented in Fig. 1, a ribbon 11 to be threaded through fabric is inserted between the jaws, whereupon the arm 10 is turned to the position shown in Fig. 2, whereby one section bears against the spring jaw to force it toward the companion-j aw and clamp the ribbon-end between the jaws, where the barbs 9 penetrate and hold it firmly. The other section of the arm, by housing itself in the recess 7*, prevents any obstruction being'presented in the direction of working the device through the fabric to lead the ribbon through the same; and the opposite rounded end of the arm prevents the latter from catching in the fabric, in the event of the arm accidentally getting out of parallelism with and projecting at its ends laterally beyond the body 5, since the fabric will then smoothly guide that end. When the ribbon to be threaded is wider than the implement, its end may be folded into a point, as represented in Fig. 1, to center the ribbon-end between the clamping-jaws and cause true leading of the ribbon in working it through the fabric.

I realize that considerable variation is pos sible in the details of construction thus specifically shown and described, and I do not intend by illustrating a single specific or preferred embodiment of my invention to be limited thereto; my intention being in the following claims to claim protection upon all the novelty there may be in my invention as broadly as the state of the art will permit.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A device of the character described, comprising a needle, a movable jaw secured on one face of the said needle to extend toward the rear end of the latter and form therewith clamping jaws, and an arm pivoted to the said needle to swing in alinement with said jaws and over the said movable jaw to press the latter toward its companion aw.

52. A device of the character described, comprising a needle, a spring-j aw secured on one face of the needle to extend toward the rear end of the latter and form therewith clamping jaWs, a pivot stud extending through said spring and needle, and an arm pivoted between its ends on said stud to press 1 and form therewith a pair of clamping-j aws,

' with a recess, a fiat spring fastened at one a prong on the spring-jaw to enter said hole, a pivot stud extending through said" spring and needle, and an arm pivoted between its ends on said stud to press the spring-jaw toward the companion-jaw by turning the arm on its pivot in the direction toextend parallel with the needle. I

4. A' device of the character described, comprising a strip bent upon itself andv forming the pointed end of a needle, the bent section being fastened near its rear end to the body of the needle and forming thereend to the needle? near the rear end of said bent section'to' extend toward therear end of said body and. form therewith clampingjaws, a pivot stud extending through said pr g an n e and n r p v ed be- Qopies of this patent may be obtained for tween its ends on said stud to press the spring-jaw toward the companion-jaw by turning the arm on its pivot in the direction to extend parallel with the needle.

5. A device of the character described,

comprising a strip bent upon itself and forming the pointed end of a needle, the bent Section being fastened near its rear end to the body of the needle and forming therewith a recess, a fiat spring fastened at one end to the needle near the rear end of said bent section to extend toward the rear needle-end and form therewith clampingjaws,

a pivot stud extending through the spring and the needle body, and'an arm having rounded. ends pivoted midway between the latter on said stud to press the spring-jaw toward the companion-jaw by turning the arlnon its pivot in the direction to'extend parallel with the needle and enter into said recess its adjacent end when so extended.

JAMES. H. BOYE.

In presence of A. C. Frsonnn, F. M. RONDEA five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

